Gold mining has exploded in Nicaragua over the past few years, bringing in billions of dollars and becoming the country’s top ...

The Australian government has nominated the goldfields in the country's southeast for World Heritage status. Tanya Plibersek, ...

The Australian government has nominated the goldfields in the country southeast for World Heritage status Tanya Plibersek minister for the Environme ...

Victoria's government has reassured miners and prospectors that a World Heritage listing of the state's Goldfields will not ...

Victoria's Goldfields — home to the most extensive and best-surviving gold-rush era landscapes in the world — has today been added to Australia's World Heritage Tentative List.

Six gold rush areas have been included in the Tentative World Heritage Status List submission, with the possibility more ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

Beneath the fertile farmlands of Victoria in southeast Australia lie deposits of mineral sands that miners and politicians ...

Victoria’s Goldfields are on a fast track to becoming a World Heritage-listed location, as the state and federal governments ...

People can’t get their hands on gold because so much has been shipped to New York, and the rest is stuck in the queue,” one ...